1. While Spring Gobbler hunting you kill a nice mature bird.
2. While Spring Gobbler hunting you come upon nice mature bird caught up in some old fencing and you set it free.
No doubt here, number 2!
Number 1
The reason why not number 2 is the mature bird could already be dead from being hung up in the fence.
#2 both would be great.
Don't have to give it any thought #2
Definitely would do a #2. ...I would probably weight him and take beard and spur measurements for the contest...just in case I felt a need to give him a day or two to recover and then go back and try to get him "fair and square". ;D :D
#1... While I would love the opportunity to see a mature bird in distress like that and set it free, that is not why I am out there. Gobblers and other animals get hung up and die like that all the time unfortunately, just seems to be part of a landscape with so many fences and so much trash. Hunting and killing one the right way, to me personally, is the most honorable way for one to go.
I'd choose number 2.It always feels good saving a bird or animal. I don't hunt big game,and I don't want to be associated with those rubes anyway. I go to archery these days,after 30 years of turkey hunting. I will still take the shotgun at times.Ive gotten good at it,pretty much self taught, although I did learn from some people, but they didn't know it.The biggest thing is, respect the eye sight and hearing of a turkey!!
#2
#2
It's not every day you get to save a wid animal from a horrible demise.
Easily #1
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#2. There is always another day to fulfill #1
Quote from: NOmad on April 03, 2024, 10:01:56 AM
#1... While I would love the opportunity to see a mature bird in distress like that and set it free, that is not why I am out there. Gobblers and other animals get hung up and die like that all the time unfortunately, just seems to be part of a landscape with so many fences and so much trash. Hunting and killing one the right way, to me personally, is the most honorable way for one to go.
You're absolutely right Mother nature is very cruel. It's never a Disney movie. But both would work for me. But I'd probably get spurred pretty bad doing it. Bubba
LOL, either would result the same.
#2
I think we have something in our nature that causes us to want to help any animal even if we normally want to kill it. We don't want to see anything suffer.
#2 would be a fun memory and story to tell.
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Definitely #2
I actually had this happen to me, but it was entangled in blackberry vines. With dealing with the vines and and a wing tearing at my flesh, I got him free enough to get himself out. I killed his buddy that was with him an hour later. I could have killed him, but his buddy presented me with a better shot and it seemed wrong to kill him after I released him. His buddy stayed just out of shotgun range and paced back and forth while I worked the bird free. Then they met up and were on their way, until I interrupted them an hour later.
#2
I will hunt the fool out of em, but hate to see any animal go out like that. It would be a cool memory in of itself.
I kill that one in the fence and I get the best of both worlds and don't even have to waste one of these ten dollar shells. So #1 by way of #2.
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Free the Tom and call him the next day. Fair chase and all that. :toothy9:
Set the gobbler free, if he truly loves you, he will come back to you
and then you can shoot him
#2 although it may depend on the circumstances(how epic the #1 hunt could be).
Free the gobbler and hope to see him again!
JT
#2
I would probably choose #2. Not for the saintly reasons of some of the more virtuous members responses, but for the memory/ story. Z
A #2 as I don't want to see the animal suffer.
Quote from: crow on April 03, 2024, 09:35:49 PM
Set the gobbler free, if he truly loves you, he will come back to you
and then you can shoot him
Thank you good sir, I don't often laugh out loud reading the forum, but that got a chuckle.
#2 memory would last longer than the #1 memory.
:D